Coms Persuasive

Persuasive Speech #1
IntroductionOpener: Mother Theresa once said, “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” She understood that donating money cannot solve poverty alone and that it is more important to show that persons in poverty do not go unnoticed. Background: The issue of poverty was really brought to my attention when it was a major part of the high school debate topic last year. I did a lot of research in order to find out what could be done and how to get it done. Audience “Need to know” Statement: We should help the poor because they are fellow human beings. We cannot turn a blind-eye. We are all interdependent. Thesis: It is important and beneficial to America if we help our fellow citizens that suffer from poverty by donating our time and effort and to lend them a hand when nobody else will. Preview Main Points: We will be covering how helping the poor benefits America, what affects poverty has on people and ways to get involved. Body

Main Point 1: Volunteering with the poor has tremendous benefits for the country that would include reducing a large amount of government spending. -sub point A: The national debt for the United States is ever increasing. There is a major part of the taxpayers dollars that goes to helping the persons in poverty. This is just adding on to the national debt when there is a simple solution to diminishing this expense and it starts with you. -sub point B: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development defines a chronically homeless individual as “an unaccompanied disabled individual who has been continuously homeless for over one year OR who has had at least four episodes of homelessness in the past three years”. As L. Green from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation states in his paper from 2006, “Although the people in this category make up only a small proportion (about 10 to 15 percent) of the more than 750,000 homeless people in the United States, they are responsible for a...

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

...﻿.COM Failure
Marketing and the .COM Bust
Why Marketing?
The .COM bust, the .COM “bubble”, the failure of companies that “dot-bombed”, happened more than a decade ago, but the lessons learned are important for the present tech sector. Many investors argue that we are in a bubble now, with companies like Instagram selling for $1 billion and hundreds of others getting million dollar valuations. Looking back, it’s clear from a marketing perspective current aspects of the products and websites themselves could have been changed to increase chances of success. Many will claim though, that many of the issues with the .COM bust and failures were of the market and overpriced IPOs that drove greed in Silicon Valley and around the world. Barring these situations, marketing data from the bust and the way that the companies failed are helpful in preventing another massive amount of failures. Marketing is the face of an organization. It’s one of the easiest things to change that will impact the perception of a product or organization the most. That’s why marketing should be one of the first things considered when looking at the past and future of web businesses.
Why Did It ALL Fail?
When the .com boom happened, thousands of investors flooded the market with money seeking that “golden opportunity” for riches and success. It is well known that the success rate for new businesses is remarkably low....

...The first signs the dot-com bubble was going to crash came from the companies themselves: many reported enormous losses and some even folded within months of their offering. In 1999 there were 457 IPOs, most of which were technology and internet related. Looking at those IPOs in more detail shows, of the 457, 117 doubled in price on their first day of trading. In 2001 there were a mere 76 IPOs and none of them doubled on their first day of trading. The Nasdaq Composite lost 78% of its value during the dot com crash as it fell from 5046.86 to 1114.11.
Following the bursting of the dot-com bubble and the recession of the early 2000s, the Federal Reserve in the USA kept short-term interest rates low for an extended period. At this same time there was a global savings glut, as developing and commodity producing countries accumulated large financial reserves. Global interest rates fell to record lows as these surplus savings were invested. This, however, lead us to our next bubble, as investors became frustrated with low returns; they began to look for higher returns and therefore assuming more risky investments. For a number of years, global financial markets went through a period which became known as the “Great Moderation”, called as such because of the above-average returns and below-average volatility by a variety of asset classes.
Rising house prices led to extensive property speculation, and also fuelled excessive consumer...

...1. Intended role of each institution/intermediary:
Venture Capitalists – They screen companies with good business ideas from bad ones and provide capital to the start-ups with good business ideas. The required return on capital for VCs is very high to compensate the shareholders for the higher risk in investing in new businesses, and this is achieved when VCs sell their stake in the business through IPOs or trade sale. Thus, VCs will work to ensure the business is sound so that it will fetch the highest possible price when going public.
Investment Banks – They provide advisory financial services, price the IPO, underwrite the shares as well as introduce the company to the public. They are then paid a commission fee based on the amount the company manages to raise in the IPO. Thus to maximize their fees, IBs are motivated to pick the best companies which the public will pay the most for.
Sell-side Analysts – They provide support during IPO process by providing research to the buy-side before the company goes public. They also publish research on public companies and make recommendations on the stock, which could be very influential on investors. They are compensated based on amount of trading fees and IB revenue generated through their research.
Buy-side Analysts/Portfolio Managers – These are institutions that actually buy or sell public stocks. The analysts research the companies and provide recommendations to the portfolio managers. Compensation for the...

...rules by themselves since after the dot-com crash VCs were criticized by investors and the media that VCs neglected their main role: distinguish good business ideas and entrepreneurial teams from bad ones. Their priority became to earn profit in a short term with questionable business models because of the strong movement of dot-com bubble. This movement changed the process of the VCs from rational investment to irrational and emotional investment.
b) Investment Bank Underwriters
Pets.com was a good example of riches-to-rags story for the dot-com crash. Nine month after became a public company, the company bankrupted. The process and regulations were obviously had no function to check the company's competencies but had function to seek how the investment banks could earn profit easily through the IPOs. Need more high regulations by SEC and high moral inside the company so that investment banks can stay calm and avoid the euphoria of the market.
c) Sell-Side Analysts
The assessment of the sell-side analysts was not an appropriate weight. It was heavily weighted on trading fees and revenues that was generated by their research. The company should address this issue to balance their compensation and moral behavior.
d) Buy-Side Analysts and Portfolio Managers
The main problem that is needed to address is short-term assessment, one-year term horizon and three-year horizon, to long-term assessment. Even they knew that the...

...The Dot-Com Bubble and its Aftermath
Roughly between 1995 and 2001, a speculative bubble known as the "dot-com bubble" occurred, during which Western stock markets saw an increase in value from the growth of the Internet sector. Bubbles such as this have occurred throughout history: in the 1840s, for example, manic buying in the field of railway building lead to a stock market bubble which burst devastatingly in the 1850s. When the dot-com bubble burst in 2001, the result was a mild but long-lasting recession in the Western world.
Because of the unknown and innovative nature of online business, many standard business models were abandoned in the early 90s in favour of radical new models which focused on brand-building and networking before profits were even considered. The idea was to increase market share whilst operating at a loss. The novelty value of these companies, and the difficulty in valuing them properly, led to an incredible exuberance where stocks in the new dot-com companies were purchased. This in turn led to them being increasingly over-valued, perpetuating the enthusiasm for buying stocks.
The bursting of the dot-com bubble occurred, numerically, on 10th March 2000; the NASDAQ fell slightly after this peak, but Most of the investors were more willing to consider it as self-correction of market mechanism, plus with the supports from most market analysts.
The averse findings of fact in...

...Dot-com companies then and now. How are they different and are we experiencing a new dot-com bubble?
Degree : Management with International Business
22 March 2012
Supervisor: Dr John Ahwere-Bafo
Candidate number: 100633010
Word count: 9176
Statement of authorship: This dissertation is the sole work of candidate
I agree that an anonymised copy of this work may be used by future students in the School of Management as an illustration of good work.
Contents:
Abstract…………………………………………………………………….……………….………………..4
Acknowledgements……………………………………………………..…………..……………….6
1. Introduction……………………………………………………………………..…………………..7
2. Literature review…………………………………………………………………………………..12
2.1 Emergence of Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) and the development of network communication………………………………………………….12
2.2 What caused the bubble?.......................................................14
2.3 Valuating companies’ shares and behavioural finance………..……………17
2.4 Venture capitals…………………………………………………………………….………….21
3. Methods………………………………………………………………………………………………24
3.1 Methods of data collection……………………………………………………………….28
4. Results………………………………………………………………………………………………..31
4.1 Presentation of results from qualitative research……………………………31
4.2 Presentation of quantitative data…………………………………………………….34
5. Discussion…………………………………………………………………………………………..42
6. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………………..50...

...launched several months of delays after dropping two launched dates and problems with the user experience when Boo.com first launched. Indeed sales had grown rapidly and were around $500,000 for the fortnight prior to the site being shut down. The fundamental problem was that the company was following an extremely aggressive growth plan, launching simultaneously in multiple European countries. This plan was founded on the assumption of the ready availability of venture capital money to see the company through the first few years of trading until sales caught up with operating expenses. Such capital ceased to be available for all practical purposes in the second quarter of 2000 following dramatic falls in the "dot crash" following the Dot-com bubble. Boo would probably have failed for this reason even if the user experience had been excellent and the launch on schedule.
Problems with the user experience
The presentation of products and content on their site were both imaginative and offer an experience. The Boo.com website was widely criticized as poorly designed for its target audience, going against many usability conventions. The site relied heavily on JavaScript and Flash technology to display 3D views of wares as well as Miss Boo, a sales-assistant-style avatar. The first publicly released version of the site was fairly hefty—the home page alone was several hundred kilobytes which meant that the vast majority of users had to wait minutes for the...

...By Jesse Colombo
The Dot-com Bubble or the Tech Bubble was a speculative bubble in the shares of early internet companies called “Dot-coms.”
Soon after the 1987 stock market crash, global stock markets resumed their previous bull market trend, led by computer and other technology-related stocks that were traded on the new electronic NASDAQ stock exchange.
By the early 1990s, personal computers were becoming increasingly common for both business and personal use. Now that computers were finally becoming reasonably priced and relatively user-friendly, they were no longer relegated to being the domain of geeky hobbyists.
Personal computers had become genuinely useful business tools that granted their users a significant boost in productivity. Business applications were invented to help users with a variety of tasks from accounting to tax preparation to word processing. Computers also began to compete with television as a form of entertainment as PC video games entered the marketplace. The operating system company Microsoft prospered enormously as almost every computer system sold had their software installed on it.
During the 1990s, the U.S. computer industry decided to focus primarily upon computer software development instead of designing and manufacturing computer hardware. The reason for this focus was because computer software was a product with very high profit margins, unlike computer hardware. Software companies generated profits by...